The state Board of Education took a step to ease South Dakota’s teacher shortage yesterday by making it easier to get certified to teach middle school…
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Which story is bigger: George McGovern had two children outside of marriage, or J. Edgar Hoover used the powers of the FBI to dig up…
The Interagency Council on Homelessness is another good example of Mike Rounds’s failure as governor. During his first year in South Dakota’s big chair, Governor Rounds signed an executive…
The Public Utilities Commission has begun its seven-day evidentiary hearing on renewing TransCanada’s permit to build the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline across western South Dakota. You can listen…
Senator John Thune says passing a multi-year Highway Bill is critical. But highway funding isn’t so important than Senator Thune won’t stop to grandstand on the Affordable Care Act.…
The Rapid City School Board wanted to collect another six million dollars each year for five years to maintain current staff and and programs. Rapid City…
Poor Pat Powers, stuck on the road, unable to post his usual cycle of weekend press releases from our Dear Leaders. How South Dakota suffers without…
Sorry, Leo…. On Thursday, columnist Lawrence Diggs of Roslyn advised the Gettysburg Police Department to stop displaying the Confederate flag on its uniform patches. Diggs said apologists for…
A Twitter acquaintance read my Saturday post on Capital One’s closure of its Sioux Falls operation and accused me of belittling the 750 South Dakota workers Capital…
The Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion is helping hospitals reduce their debts: Since the Affordable Care Act’s first open enrollment in 2013, the number of Americans covered…